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So to Speak podcast: McCarthyism and The Red Scare

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Nico Perrino

January 2, 2020

So to Speak podcast: McCarthyism and The Red Scare — Ellen Schrecker (www.ellenschrecker.com)

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“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?”

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we explore how America’s fear of communism in the early- to mid-20th century led to firings and blacklists in Hollywood, government, and higher education — and how these actions compromised America’s treasured principles of free speech, free conscience, free association, and due process of law.

We are joined by , a former professor at Yeshiva University and the author of and . Click here for a transcript of the conversation.

You can subscribe and listen to So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast on , , and , or download episodes directly from .

Stay up to date with So to Speak on the show’s and pages, and subscribe to the show’s newsletter at sotospeakpodcast.com.

Have questions or ideas for future shows? Email us at sotospeak@thefire.org.

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